Loft and Lie checks
The Royal North Devon teaching professionals can check the loft and lie of your irons to determine if over time they have changed.
The pricing for the service is £24.99 per set.
For a description of what Loft and Lie are there impact on your shots see below:
What is Loft?
The loft of a golf club is the angle created between the clubface and the ground - and will be different for every club in your bag.
The loft will have a direct impact on the distance the ball travels - the lower the loft, the further the ball will go. Your driver will have about 10-degrees of loft and will hit the ball the furthest. Your wedges, on the other hand, could have as much as 60-degrees of loft and will hit the ball the highest, but not very far.
All the other clubs in your bag will fill the 50-degree gap between these clubs, ideally in even gaps to make sure you have a club to hit any distance you need.
It's worth noting that not all golf clubs have the loft on them, some (mainly irons) only have a number or letter on them. To make things more complicated, a 7-iron from a set of Callaway irons is not necessarily the same as one from a set of TaylorMade irons.
What is a lie angle?
It's with a lie angle that things get a little more complicated, but in lay man's terms, it is the angle created between the shaft and the ground. It is important because a lie angle that's too flat or upright will cause the wrong part of the clubhead (toe or heel) to come into contact with the ground first.
If the lie angle on your clubs is correct for how you stand at address, then the center of the sole will be touching the turf and the groves parallel to the ground resulting in a straight shot. If the lie angle is out, the heel or toe (depending on if it is upright or flat) will act as a pivot and throw the clubface off the intended line.
If the lie angle is too upright, the heel will tend to dig in and flip the toe over, closing the face and sending the ball to the left, for a right-handed golfer. If the clubs are too flat the opposite is true - the toe will dig in pushing the heel forwards, opening the face, and sending the ball to the right for a right-handed golfer.
